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Pageant of 
Minnesota History 

Under the Auspices of the 

^aint ^aul institute 

Retool of airt 
Auditorium, Saint Paul 

May 4, 1911, at 8:00 P. M. 
May 5, 1911, at 2:30 P. M. 



Book by Miss Lily A. Long. Outline by 
Mrs. Cordenio A. Severance. 

Dance of Indian Spirits, Grief Dance, and 
Dance of the Moccasin Flowers, under 
the direction of Miss Eleanor Miller. 

Scenery by Students of the School of Art. 

Business Manager, Mrs. Frederick Snyder. 

Produced under ihe direction of Mr. Lee 
Woodward Zeigler. 



C ommittees 

Executive Committee — Mrs. Herbert Davis, Chairman ; Mrs. 
Cordenio A. Severance, Mrs. Furness, Mrs. E. R. Sandford, 
Mrs. Frederick Snyder, Miss Lily A. Long, Mrs. Lee 
Woodward Zeigler. 

Committee on Music — Mrs. E. R. Sandford. 

Committee on Costumes — Mrs. Lee Woodward Zeigler, Chair- 
man; Mrs. Frederick G. Stutz, Mrs. Samuel Gilbert, Mrs. 
Karl Loomis, Miss Elizabeth B. Bonta, Miss Julie C. 
Gauthier. 

Committee on Make-up— Miss Julie C. Gauthier, Chairman; 
Miss Olive Long. 



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Patronesses 



Mrs. E. J. Abbott 

Mrs. W. H. Lightner 

Mrs. W. B. Dean 

Mrs. W. F. Peet 

Mrs. John I. H. Field 

Mrs. Howard Elliott 

Mrs. H. T. Drake 

Mrs. C. J. A. Morris 

Mrs. Louis Warren Hill 

Mrs. C. p. Noyes 

Mrs. F. G. Ingersoll 

Mrs. Henry Swearingen 

Mrs. Homer Clark 

Mrs. John Townsend 

Mrs. George C. Squires 

Mrs. F. G. Budlong 

Mrs. F. C. Miller 

Mrs. J. N. Jackson 

Mrs. C. M. Griggs 

Mrs. C. W. Gordon 

Mrs. W. J. Dean 

Mrs. O. L. Taylor 

Mrs. E. H. Cutler 

Mrs. Thomas Cochran 

Mrs. Thomas McDavitt 

Mrs. Joseph Wheelock 

Mrs. F. B. Kellogg 

Mrs. a. H. Cathcart 

Mrs. C. G. Higbee 

Mrs. F. E. Weyerhaeuser 

Mrs. Horace H. Irvine 

Mrs. Benjamin Goodkind 

Mrs. William Goodkind 

Mrs. I. E. Rose 

Mrs. Samuel Dittenhoefer 

Mrs. Ambrose Guiterman 

Mrs. Edward Blake Young 

Mrs. a. R. Colvin 

M^s. Archibald MacLaren 

Mrs. Walter Ramsey 

Mrs. E. L. Hersey 

Mrs. George Thompson 

Mrs. E. R. Sanford 

Mrs. Lee Woodward Zeigler 



Mrs. C. K. Loomis 

Mrs. Herbert Davis 

Mrs. F. H. Snyder 

Mrs. William Dawson 

Mrs. Alexander Brodie 

Mrs. Arthur Sweeney 

Mrs. Blair Flandrau 

Mrs. C. J. Backus 

Mrs. S. p. Crosby 

Mrs. Arthur Gillette 

Mrs. Charles W. Ames 

Mrs. Herbert P. Keller 

Mrs. Harold Bend 

Mrs. Charles L. Greene 

Mrs. Lucius Pond Ordway 

Mrs. John Gilman Ordway 

Mrs. James Potter Elmer 

Mrs. Frank Parsons Shepard 

Mrs. Roger B. Shepard 

Mrs. Russell Van Kirk 

Mrs. a. R. Hall 

Mrs. John Schwartz 

Mrs. G. N. Orr 

Mrs. a. O. Spies 

Mrs. Otto Sander 

Mrs. V. J. Hawkins 

Mrs. G. H. Hubbell 

Mrs. B. Rosing 

Mrs. S. V. Ashbaugh 

Mrs. John S. McLain 

Mrs. Ambrose Tighe 

Mrs. J. M. Hannaford 

Mrs. E. L. Patterson 

Mrs. F. E. Ford 

Mrs. Charles Schuneman 

Mrs. John S. Prince 

Mrs. M. D. Munn 

Mrs. Frank M. Bingham 

Mrs. a. O. Eberhart 

Mrs. F. G. Stutz 

Misses Long 

Gauthier 

Wheelock 

Cochrane 

Helen Bunn 



Thanks 

ARE DUE TO THE FOLLOWING: 

Lanpher, Skinner & Co. 
Skins, Ox Cart 

Hackett, Walther & Gates Northern Pacific Railway 

Mr. Win. Youngbauer 






Pageant of Minnesota History 



PROGRAMME 



Chorus (The Spirit of Minnesota) . . . . Mrs. Helen G. Barrows 



I.— The Indians 



Minnesota speaks: 



I am of ancient lineage,— I, the Land. 

In those far days when yet the unborn earth 

Panted for life beneath the seething wave, 

I was among the first to struggle free, 

To feel the air upon my rocky front, 

And see the sun in battle with the mists. 

I bear the records of an age-long war 

With fire and ice and torrent; but at last— 

I boast not; all who hear me say the same,— 

I won, as trophy in the conflict, peace. 

And beauty all might envy, and a store 

Of wealth to be an heirloom for all time. 

My forests caught the winds and played with them; 

My rivers swept between enclosing bluffs 

That lay a league apart; my prairies spread 

Like carpets, flower-bestrewn, whereon the year, 

With stately steps to suit the season, danced; 

And everywhere my little lakes were hid. 

To catch the sky and bring it to my breast. 

I won my name of Minne-sota so — 

The land of sky-filled water. Even so. 

Then came within my valleys tribes of men. 

They claimed me from the beasts; they fought for me 

Among themselves till all my peace was rent. 

My mirrors of the sky were stained with blood. 

My forests sheltered treachery, and death 

Instead of springing life, was in my fields. 

Then Gitche Manitou, the Mighty One, 

Who holds the wide earth on his steady hand 

And draws the grass blade from the sod with love,— 

This Mighty Spirit saw that man's wild heart 

Was building hate and violence and waste. 

And hindering the work the gods would do. 

And so he flung a signal on the sky 

To call the chiefs of all the warring tribes 

To one great Council Fire. From east to west, 

From south to farthest north, he sent the sign. 

And all the people saw and understood, 

And called a truce, and sent their wisest men. 

Their chiefs and leaders and their counsellors. 

To where the Red Stone crops above the ground 

To form a circle, open to the sky. 

They masked their hate with silence, but the wrath 

Of long-fought wars was in their veiled eyes. 

Then in the center, where but now was naught, 

Lo, Gitche Manitou appeared,— a mighty chief, 

Who looked on them and frowned; and yet they knew 

As children know a parent's frown hides love. 

That out of love, not anger, sprang his words. 

In after days, no two could e'er agree 



Jx"7u l"'° ^'''^*°" ^^^ ^'■^^^ Spirit spoke,- 
Whether as thunder echoing down the sky 
Or as men speak, in words the gods have sent; 
Ur as an inner silence in the heart. 
But well they knew the meaning of his words. 
Ihey hid It in the silence of the heart 
As men hide fire beneath the sheltering ash 
lo keep it hvmg through a winter night. 
My children," Gitche Manitou began. 
My children whom I set upon the earth 

4u^f ^f "''^^' ^^^P ""y ""^P fi'-e burning here 
While I am on the chase in search of game 
1 hat hides beyond the thickets of the stars, 
How do I find you, when, all travel spent, 
1 come again to rest beside the lakes 
And listen to the murmur of the pines .? 
You that should war with savage beasts alone, 
Ur with the storm, or with the winter's cold 
Or with the torrent that defies your power, ' 
You have turned murderous arrows on yourselves 
bo might a warrior do that maimed the hand 
With which he wields the war club. Doinc so 
You waste your strength, you fill this earth^I love 
With bitterness and sorrow, and you han^ 

A hampering weight and clog upon my a?m 

I hat should be building worlds and making men. 

Go now, and see that peace do go with you 

Go novy to east and west and north and south, 
lo lowlands by the rivers, and to hills 

That overlook the sage plains, and to lakes 

A Tj f, "'°°"'' "'''''''^ ^""O"! the Red Stone. Go 
And dwell apart in peace, to each his own. 
But first, the pipe of peace I smoke with you. 
In solemn bond that no one may forget. 
And year by year, when autumn comes again, 
And scarlet run the vines, like clinging flame, 
Ihrough all the forest, and the nuts are ripe 
And all the yellow maize is gathered in 
1 then will send a veil of fragrant smoke 
Upon the sleepy land, and you will know 
«y that same sign that I do hold you bound 
lo keep the pact that you have sealed with me 
And with each other, by this Pipe of Peace." 
And so It was the nations drew apart 
And each grew strong, and peace was on the land, 
And plenty in the teepee. And each year 
1 he haze of Indian Summer veiled the earth 
^n sign the Mighty Spirit held the tribes 
1 o that great truce of old. The word went down 
l;^rom elder to the younger that the gods 
Detest the speaker with a crooked tongue, 
And broken faith was counted as a shame. 
In after sorrow, oft the tale was told 
Of this, the vanished past, the Age of Gold 



ACT I. 



The Legend of the Peace Pipe 

Gitche Manitou apportions the Earth among the Tribes. 
Miss Olive Long 

Time — Legendary. 

Scene— Red Pipestone Quarries. 

The Indians are gathered for a war-dance. Gitche Manitou, the Great 
Spirit, calls upon them to cease their warfare, and bids them smoke the Pipe 
of Peace. 

Gitche Manitou Ralph Stokes 



Chiefs: 



Charles Baker 
Tom Blake 
Walter Ford 



Silas Jensen 
Orson Powers 



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Isadore Abrahamson 
Raymond Anderson 
Bert Baer 
Earle Balch 
Floyd Brink 
Bruce Brightman 
Ernest Brimmer 
Kenneth Caldwell 
John Conway 
Roy Dingle 
Harold Dorrance 
Tom Farquhar 
Austin Fields 
Charles Fuller 
Harvey Fuller 
Everett Geer 
Willis Geib 
Horace Gibson 
Herbert Gillard 



Gerald Hennessy 
Oscar Hodnot 
Ned Kilgore 
Walter Kueffner 
Oliver Larson 
Carl McElroth 
Roy Manley 
Carl Nippert 
Harry Oerting 
Ed Patten 
Ralph Richards 
Harvey Rogers 
Paul Sischo 
Walter Spriggs 
Charles Sweitzer 
Paul Thomas 
Anthony Tomasek 
Kenneth Urquhart 
Leon Weiss 



11.— The Vikings 

Minnesota speaks: 

The happy seasons came and passed, and still 

I basked beneath the sky, and thought that fear 

Had fled forever, and that all my days 

Would run like sunset ripples on the mar<Te, 

Breaking in gold and crimson on the sand. 

But every day that comes in shimmering light 

From out the eastern portal of the sky 

Dies in the end to night. The tale of days 

Runs on and on and on, in ceaseless change. 

One day there came strange men from far away,— 

Strange pale-faced men, with hair like tasseled corn, 

And keen blue eyes that held the master look. 

Sailors they were, and strange to inland ways. 

Adventurous, and seeking evermore 

What lands might lie beyond the western sea. 

The lure had led them over ocean tides 

That ne'er before had felt the oarsman's stroke. 

And through the opening straits that narrowed down 

To check their rashness; and so on, and on 

By open highway of the linked lakes. 

To this, the secret fastness of the wild. 

The secret they had won they could not share! 

The way they trod shows no returning trail. 

The forests closed behind them, and the streams 

Wound glittering paths for their entanglement. 

The stars that served to guide them o'er the waste 

Looked palely down to see them snared and trapped. 

The earth was leagued against them, for the hour 

For loosening of the West was not yet come. 

But with high laughter on their bearded lips 

They faced the fate that slowly, day by day. 

Crept in upon them as they staggered on. 

To claim the farthest inch man yet had won. 

No cravens they. Though beaten to their knees, 

Bespent and weaponless and past all speech, 

They smote their hand upon the deathless stone, 

And bade it bear a witness for all time 

That Norsemen once had held the West in fee. 

Then with a cry of "Skol!" upon their lips. 

They bowed to Death, their only conqueror. 

And trooped with laughter to the Heroes' Hall, 

Walhalla, where the heroes who are slain 

In noble battle pour the sacred wine 

And chant, the ages through, a saga brave,— 

And silent flowed the centuries o'er their grave. 



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ACT II. 



Coming of the Vikings 

Professor Oscar Jacobson. 



SCENE I. 
The Vikinj^ Ship. 



Time— The year 1362. 
Place— Lake Superior. 

Chorus of Vikings: 

Prof. Oscar Jacobson 
S. E. Johnson 

GOTLIEB MaGNY 

K. C. Wold 
Oscar Olson 
Erick Stadig 
Arthur Johnson 
A. B. BoLiN 
F. H. Johnson 
W. J. Anderson 
Nat. a. Frykman 
Oscar E. Alm 
Edward C. Israelson 

OlOF I. A. SOHLBERG 

Bard 

Chorus Trained py 



Hon. Wm. M. Erickson 

Harry Lund 

E. T. Wallinder 

Prof. Frank Berger 

Fritz Anderholm 

W. Anderson 

Victor Brown 

Arthur Lundholm, Jr. 

John Beckstrom 

Henry Beckstrom 

HiLDiNG Haltkranz, Soloist 

Prof. Carl Youngdahl 

Ernest Johnson 

Prof. R. A. Jacobson 

Hilding Haltkranz 

Prof. Carl Youngdahl 



SCENE 2. 

Time— Same as Scene i. 

Place — Near Kensington, Minnesota. 

Indians: From Act I. 

SCENE 3. 

The Same. 

Erection of Kensington Rune Stone, by Survivors. 



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m*— Hiawatha and Minnehaha 

Minnesota speaks: 

Where life is, love will come, for love is life. 

The rocks would crumble into yellow dust 

Were love to loose its bond; the stars would fade 

And fall in heedless ruin from the sky. 

And suns and worlds go crashing into nr^ught. 

For love and life are twined, a double thread. 

Through all that is. No dullest flake of dust, 

No atom in the wide embrace of space, 

But thrills with potency of Yet To Be, 

And joys to share the Being of the gods. 

And so within mine ancient glades was joy, 

For life and love were there. My young men came 

From hunt and chase and foray to explore 

The dearer dangers of the soft black eyes 

That watched their prowess from the teepee door. 

Love bound their hands and taught them mysteries,- 

That weakness has a greater power than strength; 

That life may be a thing to throw away 

If so another profit; that the joy 

Unshared is barren; and that sorrow may. 

In spite of sorrow's self, be turned to grace 

If two together hold it in their heart, 

As harsh thorned bushes may, beneath the sun. 

Bear crowns of roses, hiding thus the thorn. 

One tale of love, made lovelier by the power 

Of perfect words to hold undying youth. 

Comes from the gentle singer who divined 

The hidden yearnings of the Redman's heart. 

And, in compassion, taught the humbling truth 

That all alike are children, stretching hands 

Through mists that blind them all, to reach the light 

While lives the memory of the vanished past. 

The tale interpretive will live. The tribes 

Of dusky freemen may have passed away 

Into the limbo of forgotten things 

Where buried truth is hard to find; but still 

Will Hiawatha woo, and evermore 

Will Minnehaha leave her father's door. 



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ACT III. 

Minnehaha 

Mrs. Elmer. 
James Potter 

Time— Legendary. 

Place— Minnehaha Falls. 

Minnehaha Miss Maud Borup 

Hiawatha Dr. Charles A. Eastman 

Arrow Maker Mr. Thomas Leslie Wann 



IV.— The Voyageurs 

Minnesota speaks: 

Then came that gallant band, the Voyageurs,— 
Adventurous spirits, tossing life and death 
Like chance-flung dice, with an unfaltering hand. 
To find the western sea that led to Ind, 
To thread the rivers, flowing from the north, 
To pierce the mystery of unknown lands. 
To find the fabled gold of buried kings. 
To track the bear and bison in the wild. 
To trade for silky pelts a queen might wear. 
To hold dumb converse with the woodland men 
And learn the master-craft of how to wrest 
Full life, bare handed, from the barren wilds,— 
All these were lures to lead the adventurer on. 
Yet more than all, perhaps, 'twas but to feel 
The wildness close about him, shutting out 
The petty strife of towns, the labor dull 
Of day by weary day while time shall run 
That marks the somber safety of the towns. 
Here there was danger, meet to match his might; 
Here there was vastness, equal to desire. 
The night sky spread a tent above the world. 
Murmurous with winds that blew from sea to sea. 
The forests held the memories of a past 
Older than cities, and than empires more. 

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Foremost of all, the gallant Radisson, 

That youth adventurous of Gallic blood, 

Who knew the seven oceans of the world 

Before the beard had darkened on his chin. 

For months a captive to the Indian horde, 

He came again in freedom, flinging back 

The'r own defiance of the chance of war. 

His eager foot the first to press my soil. 

His eye the first to scan my ample fields. 

And see, in fancy, nations yet to be. 

And with him, bound in brotherhood of love 

And of adventure, came Groseilliers, 

Sedate and prudent, wise to trade and buy. 

For them the mighty Mississippi made 

A level highway to the wilderness,— 

And to the temple of undying fame. 

And here came Hennepin, commissioned priest, 

Who named the falls that checked his onward march 

For Anthony, Saint of Padua, who can bring 

The lost and hidden things to light of day! 

Beside Mille Lacs, Du Luth unfurled the flag 

Of lilied France; and here Le Sueur came 

To seek for copper where the Blue Earth flows. 

('Tis said that he the first of all bestowed 

The spirit iron, maza waukon, gun, 

Upon the Indians, met in friendly mood,— 

A direful magic in the after days.) 

Here Carver, on the mound above the stream, 

Beheld the ancient burial rites whereby 

The living rendered honor to the dead. 

And made a treaty for their choicest lands,— 

A white-man's magic often put to use! 

The roll call of the bold adventurers 

Wakes echoes long familiar to the ear,— 
Pike, Snelling, Leavenworth, who set a fort 

Where placid Minnesota pours its flood 

Of yellow water in the Father stream; 

Lord Selkirk and the Scottish colonists 

Who brought their scattered hopes to harbor here; 

The patient Schoolcraft, who explored the source, 

The "Veritas caput," of the mighty stream. 

And Boutwell, who devised "Itasca" thence; 

And Nicollet, the French astronomer; 

And many more who followed at the beck 

Of far adventure and of fair romance. 

Youth calls to youth. The land and they were young. 

And every morning was a challenge flung. 



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ACT IV. 



Coming of the Voyageurs 

SCENE I. 

Mrs. John S. Ordway. 

Tableau: Radisson and (irostilicrs trading furs with the Indians. 

Time — The year 1656. 

Radisson Mr. C. Reinold Noyes 



Groseiliers . 



Mr. Edwin White 



SCENE 2. 
Miss Helen Bunn. 

Tableau: Discovery of St. Anthony's Falls. 
Time— 1680. 

Father Hennepin Mr. Samuel McM. Shepard 

. Mr. Donald Bigelow and Mr. Morris Taylor 



Two Companions 



SCENE 3. 

Mrs. Roger Sheppard. 

Tableau: Le Sueur giving guns to the Indians. 

Time— About r683. 

Le Sueur 



Mr. White 



SCENE 4. 

Mrs. William Gillette. 

Tableau: Jonathan Carver's Treaty viith the Indians. 

Time— May i, 1767. 

Jonathan Carver Mr. Thomas Leslie Wann 

Indian Chief Mr. Walter Kennedy 

Friends of Carver . . . Messrs. Frank Shepherd, Hubert Kennedy 

SCENE 5. 

Mrs. Richard Lea Kennedy. 

Dance of Grief at the Indian Mounds. 

The Misses Lorena Abbott, Adelaide Armstrong, Alice Forrest, 
Frances Rogers, Mary Goodell, Caroline Peabody, Gretchen James, 
Katherine Bryant, Marjory Bemis, Helen Sanders, Bonnie Ransome, 
Margarite Davis, Ruth Nichols. 

Indian Warriors: Same as Act I. 



INTERMISSION 
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V.-The Traders 

Minnesota speaks: 

Where the adventurers had blazed the way 
The traders followed, and the immigrants 
Ihe vision Radisson had once beheld 
Of broad lands welcoming the dowerless sons 
Uf crowded Europe, came in very truth 
«y dog-train, ox-cart, over winter snows 
And up the open highways of the streams, 
Ihey came with eager hands to gather in 
Ihe wealth of wood and stream and waiting field 
Hardships there were, but there were hardy hearts- 
Dangers were there, but courage faced them down.' 
Ihe creaking of the heavy-laden carts 
Across the empty prairies was a cry 
1 lercing the night with shriek of coming change. 
Make way! it cried across the dark, "Make wayt 
1 his IS the vanguard of the coming day'" ' 



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All the Photographs in this 

supplement are by 

courtesy oj the 

BRUSH STUDIO 

Schubert Bldg. Saint Paul 




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ACT V. 



Coming of Traders and Immigrants 



Time— About 1845. 



Time — About 1845. 



SCENE I. 

Hon. Bazille. 
Dog Train. 

SCENE 2. 

Major Rice, U. S. A. 
Red River Ox Cart. 

SCENES 3 and 4. 

Lieut. Bailey, U. S. A. 
Prairie Schooner. 
Time — About 1855. 

Scouts: 

Immigrant Family: 

Mrs. Forrest Orton, The Misses Charlotte Sibley, Marguerite Bell, 
Peggy Bell, Margaret Peterson, Ella Reisman, Masters Charles Pope, 
Bert Reisman. 



VI.— The Early Settlers 



Minnesota speaks: 

Above the river where the channel bends, 
Pere Galtier set the Chapel of St. Paul 
On land bestowed by Guerin and Gervais. 
Its lifted cross was known to watermen 
Who passed it for the new metropolis, 
Mendota, Henry Sibley's famous home. 
That small basilica has grown to be 
Cathedral, and the Landing of St. Paul, 
Where Indians came to dicker at the post. 
And wonder at the white man's many toys, 
Has grown to be the Athens of the West! 
The men who brewed the magic for the change, 



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The masters of the wilderness, have left 

Their names a cherished memory for to-day:— 

Sibley, the generous host, who came a boy 

To Minnesota's threshold, welcoming thence 

The later comers, flocking to his side; 

Ramsey, who came to guide the ship of state 

Upon its maiden voyage; and again. 

When war clouds hid the stars, was at the helm; 

And with them Henry Rice, who long upheld 

The young state's dignity in Washington; 

Edmund, his brother, leader of the bar; 

And Franklin Steele, the friend of every man, 

Who crossed the river for his settler's claim. 

Foreseeing future Minneapolis! 

James Goodhue, wielder of the caustic pen; 

And Aaron Goodrich, representing law; 

Sweet Harriet Bishop, of the "Floral Home," 

And of the Harriet Island of to-day, 

Who taught the young frontierlings not to shoot! 

The missionaries, Williams, Riggs and Neill, 

Who tried to teach the gentle law of Christ 

To pagan redmen and to savage whites; 

The early traders, Jackson and Robert, 

Who left their names upon our city streets; 

Gilfillan, Irvine, Adams, Wilder, Oakes, 

Brisbin and Burbank, Ludden, Gribbin, Trask, 

And Larpenteur, whose memory spans the past. 

The witty Flandrau, and his friend, Rolette, 

Who stole the bill to change the capitol,— 

Frontiersman's methods brought to parliamxent! 

Father Ravoux, the comforter of all; 

Borup, the good physician, he who held 

Redman and white alike in fellowship; 

Dousman, the trader; Baptiste Faribault; 

Earl Goodrich, of the early Pioneer; 

And Robertson, who ran the Democrat; 

And Joseph Wheelock, he whose vision clear 

And ringing words were guidance for a state; 

And Hill, the young road-builder, who divined 

The hidden Future, and whose potent hand 

Beckoned her hither, making smooth her way; 

Blakely, and Truman Smith, and Henry Swift, 

And Charles Bazille, who gave the state the ground 

On which the Capitol should ever stand; 

Gordon, and Murray; Kittson; David Day; 

Gilman, and others of the early bar,— 

And many more whose echoed names are borne 

By sons and grandsons who take up to-day. 

In later ways, the building of their sires. 

The needs and fashions of a time go by; 

The heritage of honor cannot die. 



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ACT VI. 



Early Settlers 



SCENE I. 
Mrs. S. p. Crosby, D. A. R. 
General and Mrs. Sibley receiving guests at their home at Mendota, 
Time — About 1845. 

General Sibley Mr. F. D. Monfort 

Mrs. Sibley Mrs. F. D. Monfort 

Jo Rolette 

Mr. and Mrs. Paul Campbell, Mrs. Irwin, Mrs. Geo. M. Kenyon, 
Mrs. a. p. Moss, Mrs. Jas. Schoonmaker, Mrs. F. H. Orton, Mrs. F. H. 
Jerrard, Mrs. D. W. McCourt, Mrs. Leroy O'Brien, Mrs. Harry Don- 
ahower, Mrs. F. M. Catlin, Mrs. Wm. Plant, The Misses Clum, Miss 
Beaumont, Miss Liggett, Miss Edna Riggs, Miss Douglas, Miss Deem, 
Mr. Jules Denegre, Mr. Jerrard, Mr. McCourt. 
Indian Chief Prof. Oscar Jacobson 

SCENE 2. 

Miss Malcolm. 

Landing of the "Dr. Franklin," at Mendota. First Mississippi boat to have 

a steam whistle. 



SCENE 3. 

Joe Rolette. 

Joe Rolette Mr. Gerald O'Brien 

Mr. Goodrich Mr. Walsh 

Time— Spring of 1849. 
Children: 



Ruth Lorenz 
Grace Wilharber 
Phillis Youngman 
Grace Feinstin 

Early Settlers: 
Boat Hands: 

Mae Abbott 

Miss Warren 

Marian Greene 

Jessie Greene 

Alice Maxfield 

Adele Lanpher 

Munn 

Lucille Davis 

Marguerite Davis 

Nye 

Mrs. Horace Irvine 

Indians: Same as Act I. 



Mae Spence 
Gladys Sudlow 
Louise Craig 
Ethel Brown 



Mrs. James Mitchell 
Mrs. Blair Flandrau 
Mr. Malcolm McGuiken 
Mr. Donald West 
Mr. Reinold Noyes 
Mr. Edward Foley 
Mr. Alfred Coning 
Mr. Terry 
Mr. Irvin Jones 
Mr. Edwin White 
Mr. McNeil Stringer 



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VII.-The Wars 



Minnesota speaks: 

The heavy war-time laid a double woe 

Upon the heart of Minnesota. Then, 

While every nerve was strained to catch the cry 

From Southern battlefields, the Indian tribes 

Broke in a rage the white man's flimsy bonds, 

Wreaking their fury on the scattered farms, 

Filling the nights with terror, days with dread. 

And whelming all the stricken state with grief. 

New Ulm, Fort Ridgley, and the lonely glen, 

Birch Coulie, with their tragic memories. 

Will keep a blotted page of history 

Beside Bull Run and fateful Gettysburg. 

Flandrau's defense, and young Tim Sheehan's ride, 

And Sibley's parleyings with Little Crow, 

The treacherous Renville Rangers, Brackett's loss, 

The slaying of Captain Marsh and Peter Quinn, 

And day by day the tidings, still renewed, 

Of burnings, sudden death, and more than death,— 

These were the burdens laid upon the heart 

That quivered at each zephyr from the South. 

For in the South, the first of all to spring 

In quick response to sad Columbia's cry, 

The sons of Minnesota in the field 

Were dying daily that the land might live. 

The roll-call of the heroes who went forth 

Beneath the colors that a woman's hand 

Bestowed on parting, pulls at all our hearts,— 

Bishop and Sanborn, Andrews, Gorman, King, 

Acker and Hubbard, Marshall and Van Cleve; 

And young John Ireland, chaplain of the Fifth; 

And he of Gettysburg, who flung himself 

Before the rising tide of victory 

That threatened overthrow, and checked the tide, 

And turned it backward,— Colville, of the First. 

Time cannot tarnish fame like theirs, nor hide 

Their state's devotion and her grateful pride. 



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ACT VII. 



Minnesota in the Civil War 



SCENE I. 

Mrs. C. E. Furness. 

Presentation of silk colors by the ladies of Saint Paul to the First Minnesota 

Regiment. 

Time— i86i. Place— Before the old State House. 

Mrs. Ramsey Vernon Marguerite Magoffin 

Colonel Gorman 

Captain Stansbury 



Soldiers: 



Capt. H. a. Andres 
2ND Lieut. A. C. Thompson 
1ST Sergt. E. W. Budy 
Sergeant A. B. Pierce 
O. B. Horton 
W. G. Lynch 
J. L Moore 
W. E. Colby 
Corporal H. L. Winkel 
J. G. Tanzer 
Frank Neil 
Musician C. L. Heinrich 
Private W. L. Ackerman 
C. C. Barnum 
C. E. Eplers 
H. D. Heiman 
S. Hovde 
H. Karlebach 
R. E. Kerchhoff 
C. H. Kline 
H. T. Krellurtz 
C. Lampland 
C. J. Lick 
I. E. Long 
M. E. Long 
I. W. Manthey 
L. McPheron 
W. G. Nary 
C. E. Neilson 
W. N. Nelson 
E. Sandler 
S. Silberg 
J. D. Spence 
M. G. Wilson 



Captain George K. Sheppard 
1ST Lieut. Fred. A. Tiffany 
2ND Lieut. M. W. Barry 
First Sergeant C. W. Gaskell 
Q. M. Sergeant J. M. Finkelson 
Sergeant H. A. Kent 
J. L. McCooL 

C. H. TiPLER 

A. J. Neubauer 



Corporal T. F. Cummings 

C. C. Kinney 
W. H. Favvcett 

F. W. Brunson 

D. O. Stegner 
J. K. Scott 

Artificer H. F. Softley 
Cook A. H. Bley 

A. T. Spicer 
Musician F. M. Murphy 

G. C. Johnson 
Private Alexander, A. A. 

Andrews, V. R. 
Beatson, D. W. 
Beatson, J. B. 
Benz, O. W. 
Boerner, R. R. 
Benek, p. J. 
Brodhag, a. F. 
Case, F. T. 
Case, E. E. 
Carroll, J. F. 
Deuel, W. W. 

DiRKES, F. J. 

Doran, C. M. 
Erickson, C. E. 
Francois, C. A. 
Franklin, A. R. 
Goswitz, F. a. 
Hinueber, L. C. 
Hart, R. T. 
Jenks, D. E. 
Jones, R. R. 
Joy, F. J. 
Leach, F. B. 
Leonard, J. L. 
LiND, N. H. 
Luthman, a. p. 
Lystad, a. W. 
McTigue, p. M. 
Meyers, F. H. 
Meyers, C. H. 
Miszewski, S. a. 
Melrose, F. L. 
Miller, R. T. 



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Private Minser, W. G. 
NOYES, C. S. 
Neff, R. N. 
Nelson, O. F. 
Olson, H. C. 
Reickitzer, R. J. 
Relf, R. R. 
Riedell, G. E. 
Seymour, W. J. 
Shearn, W. J. 
Smith, F. L. 
Snow, W J. 
Stevens, J. J. 
Stevens, M. E. 
Strachote, W. W. 
Still, A. C. 
Sturtevant, W. W. 
Tierney, T. J. 

TiERNEY, W. J. 

Walker, B. W. 
Weisel, E. M. 
Whitefield, R. N. 
Wilhelmi, R. F. 



Captain F. E. Krembs 
1ST Lieut. W. H. Barnacle 
2ND Lieut. B. M. Pederson 
1ST Sergeant Wm. G. Reifler 
Q. M. Sergeant F. H. Peters 
Sergeant R. W. Moritz 

M. G. Randolph 
R. E. Reed 
Corporal B. J. Sendner 
J. J. Mullen 
August Quast 
Henry J. La Valley 
Chas. R. Flynn 
Chas. O. Burlingham 
Musician Joseph Hazel 
Artificer A. W. McNamara 



Private Aronson, G. 

Armstrong, F. J. 
Amos, C. J. 
Bantz, E. J. 
Barnacle, H. C. 
Benson, W. C. 
Berns, C. F. 
Butler, C. J. 
Carmichael, G. N. 

DORAN, C. 

Fritzam, F. 
Gaetke, W. H. 
Grevstad, C. L. 

GUILLAUME, S. M. 

Haywood, M. C. 
Herrmann, W. C. 
Hogan, F. J. 
Hoffstatter, F. L 
Letford, R. M. 
Martin, A. M. 
Maloy, L. J. 
Moe, a. E. 
Mohan, R. 
Moritz, W. W. 
McMahon, C. B. 
McMahon, L. a. 
McMahon, V. 
Pederson, G. C. 
PuscH, H. 
Rasmussen, W. V. 
Rust, C. L. 
Sendner, T. F. 
Schilling, H. G. 
ScHULz, Carl 
Schletty, W. 
Slaby, J. G. 
Wittbecker, G. B. 
Wise, George 
Wright, J. A. 
Matteson, C. 



SCENE 2. 

Captain F. E. Krembs, M. N. G. 

Minnesota troops en route for embarkation to the South. 
Time— Same as Scene i. Place— Fort SneUing. Soldiers— Same as Scene i. 



Veterans of the Civil War, 

Andrews, C. C. 
AuGE, Jas. 
Brack, Bent. 
Bement, E. p. 
Bishop, J. W. 
Biddleman, J. H. 
Buck, Geo. W. 
Becker, R. A. 
Blackman, a. p. 
BoLAND, John 
BOYCE, H. W. 
Balmes, Peter 



SCENE 3. 
General Bishop. 

members of the Grand 

Brigham, J. L. 
Bevans, H. G. 
Bircher, Wm. 
Bunker, Chas. S. 
Brink, W. H. 
Castle, H. A. 
Collender, F. E. 
Caldwell, Jas. P. 
Comfort, O. H. 
Clarke, L. O. 
Cramsee, J. W. 
Crego, G. H. 



Army of the Repubhc. 

Crissey, Chas. 
CoNZETT, Jos. J. 
Dohm, F. W. 
Davidson, J. H. 
Davis, Frank A. 
Daves, S. L. 
Donahower, J. C. 
Donahue, J. R. 
Doherty, T. 
Doran, F. B. 
Downs, S. D. 
Evensen, M. G. 



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Fargo, W. D. 
Freyer, E. L. 
Flag, S. D. 
Harrison, W. H. 
Hardacre, 
Henry, Patrick 
Hall, Watson W. 
Harries, W. H. 
Hertz, J. L. 
Hughson, E. E. 
Hubbard, L. J. 
Howard, Daniel E. 
Ives, G. S. 
Kingsbury, D. L. 
King, J. R. 
Konantz, C. 
Koch, F. A. 
Larkin, J. P. 
Lampher, R. a. 
Lane, John 
Leavitt, Wesley 
Lewis, Geo. R. 
Lee, L. J. 
Lee, Jos. 
McCloud, D. H. 
Mahan, I. L. 



MacMillan, W. F. 
McGrath, W. L. 
Mills, H. L. 
Madigan, D. 
Mallory, F. C. 
Markley, Davis 
Morgan, M. R. 
Moore, Frank 
Morgan, Adam 
Newport, R. M. 
Gorman, Wm. O. 
Officer, Harvey 
Otto, Gustave 
Parker, E. D. 
Phillips, S. D. 
Price, A. A. 
Powers, Geo. 
Ryan, John 
Riley. T. W. 
Riley, J. K. 
Ritchie, Parker 
Ransom, Wm. 
Rinker, G. a. 
Roake, a. H. 
RoLPH, H. E. 
Rank, A. 



Sleppy, Wm. J. 
Slifer, S. S. 
ScHOUR, Geo. 
SiLCOCK, Robert 
Simon, Peter 
Smith, Jos. H. 
Smith, Webster 
Smith, Edward B. 
Smith, Sidney 
Steiger, F. J. 
Stone, F. D. 
Stauffer, F. L. 
Sullivan, Thoijas 
Swisher, F. S. 
Smith, J. S. 
Thompson, Wm. 
Timme, Chas. 
Thayer, J. N. 
Thompson, G. W. 
Way, John 
Weiblen, F. a. 
Williams, M. K. 
White, T. S. 
WiNSHip, Albert L. 

WiLLIARD, W. H. H. 



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VIII.— The Passing of the Indian 



Minnesota speaks: 

A mist that shifts and changes with the wind, 

A dream the dreamer tries in vain to hold, 

Such is the mastery on the earth of man. 

Where once the unfettered Redman roamed at will, 

The white man claims the land by metes and bounds. 

The clang of mill and factory breaks the hush 

That brooded on the prairie and the stream. 

And where the moccasin flower, in yellow grace. 

Danced with the wind and sheltered in the shade, 

The prim, trim fields march straitly, row by row. 

What has been, shall be; change shall follow change. 

For the dominion that man claims is vain, 

His lordship of the earth a passing dream,— 

A dream the dreamer tries in vain to clasp, 

A mist that melts within his futile grasp. 



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ACT VIII. 

Passing of the Indian 

Dr. Charles Eastman. 

Last Indian Dr. Charles Eastman 

Dance of Indian Spirits, in charge of Mrs. John I. H. Field and Mrs. Greene. 

Spirit of Miss Hedwig Schein 

Spirits of Miss Marguerite Davis 

Miss Ruth Nichols 

Spirits of Miss Adele Lanther 

Mrs. Wm. Motter 

Spirits of . 

Spirits of 

Miss Dorothy Farrington, Harriet Eastman, Alice Maxfield, Lucile Davis, 
Margaret Ames, Jessie Greene, Louise Warren, Nellie Nye, Elsa Labach, 
Marcelle Visby, Marion Spates. 

Little Indian Girl Miss Ida Blighton 

Dance of the Moccasin Flowers, in charge of . Miss Eleanor Miller. 

Ruth Bauman, Gladys Joyce, Frances Flannagan,Mercia Burke, Gertrude Lund, 
Elizabeth Bullock, Olive Taylor, Florence Burke, Roselyn Goldberg, Tilda 
Blumenthal, Marjory Heck, Gertrude Levy, Elizabeth Heeter, Marie Horning, 
Sylvia Edelstein, Ruth Edelstein, Evelyn Lund, Elsie Timme, Grace Wilhar- 
ber, Trecie Elfenbein, Gladys Mills, Ethel Mills, Clara Gains, Katie Houser, 
Lucile Heeb, Josephine Kirby, Louise Kreig, Ethel Brown, Angelica Peck- 
man, Grace Feinstein, Ida Blighton. 



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IX.-Minnesota To-day 

Minnesota speaks: 

Fair is the pathway that is beckoning on 
Bounteous and abundant is the wealfh ' 
ItllXlT: '^Vr'^y- ^he golden soil 

A strea,^ of .T '"^''^' '^""^"^^^^ brings 
2 stream of gold unto our waiting hands 

And art and learning dream beside our Le 

Before such bounty, we can only pray ^ 

For s,ngle-eyed discernment of the^ruth 

£pele rtLtttfTh ^"^ ^^^^ -^ ^-- 

Our Ly lies on^T^ltr^M^n^furf • 
Betray our senses into idle sleep ^ " 

Or change high courage into low content 

The w,y leads on; and tasks are yet to do 
To prove our souls' heredity from those 
Who went before and blazed the open way 
ExploTed \l T' ^'^ '"^"^^' -- - tLT 

£S;tL^-i-r--t^^ 
-i:rrLrLxtSr:f;::r'--^ 



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ACT IX. 

Modern Minnesota 

Miss Ellen Wheelock and Miss Emily Cochran. 

Tableau representing the natural and industrial wealth of the State. 

Spirit of Minnesota Mrs. Helen B. Barrows 

Music Mrs. Arthur Gillette 

Science Miss Vernon Marguerite Magoffin 

Architecture Miss Carling 

JUSTICE Miss Clara Mairs 

Poetry Miss Edith Walsh 

^j^j Miss Ida KuefFner 

Law ^^^^ Drake 

Sculpture Mrs. Jesse Neal 

Farmers: Messrs. Jesse Neal, Ray Kellerman, Austin E. Doulon, Morris 
Roberts, Louis Goldberg, Wayne Hawkins, Bert O'Brien, Warren Harris, 
Robert Bain, Arthur Gardner. 

Lumbermen: Messrs. Jack Leach, Henry Cowie, Fred Rounds, Edgar Romans, 
Carl Nippert, Theodore Muller, James Helman, Robert Stickney. 

Miners: Messrs. A. Savage, Milo Meeker, Clarence Neilson, Alfred SchefFer, 
Win Elson, Lloyd Faulkner, Herbert Strunk, Floyd Brink, William Snyder, 
Wilbur Hausner. 

Dairy Maids: Mrs. S. Dean, Mrs. F. W. Lightner, Mrs. A. Savage, Miss 
Laura Fulton, Miss May Buckley, Miss Alice Verne Sorenson, Misses 
Kennedy, Miss Georgia Sherman, Miss Rachel Abbott. 

Farm Girls: Miss Beatrice A. Ivey, Miss Bernice Dafoe, Miss Drusilla Paist, 
Miss Ruth Kennedy, Miss Lenore Cron, Miss Carol Bishop, Miss Ruth 
Hinsberger, Miss Alice Mackey, Miss Delia Novotny, Miss Jessie Burke. 

University Students: Miss Lorna Lange, Miss Catherine Casady, Miss 
Mary Haupt, Miss Jessie O'Brien, Miss Gladys Casady, Messrs. Leroy 
Sorenson, Frank Harris, Edgar E. Merrifield, Clarence Johnson, A. D. 
Smith. 



Scenery painted by Misses Clara Mairs, Marion Greene, Jessie Burke, Messrs. 
Floyd Brink, Wilbur Hausner, Carl Eichhorn, Lloyd Faulkner, Matthew 
Ehlenz, Herbert Strunk, William Snyder, Theodore Van Soelen, students 
of the St. Paul Institute School of Art. 

Lighting by Mr. Edward Fournier. 
Stage Carpenter, Mr. Frank Nelson. 

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Programme of Music 



Panamericana' 



Negro Melodies" 
Darkies' Jubilee" 
Patriotic Medley" 
Meditation" from "Thais" 

Solo Violin, Mr. Nelson 
Dances" from "Henry the Eighth" 



Bellstedt 
Grieg 



Overture "From Indian Suite" MacDowell 

'Indian War Dance" 
'Peer Gynt Suite" 

'Morning" 

'Ase's Death 

'Anitra's Dance" 

'In the Hall of the Mountain King" 

'From an Indian Lodge" 

'Medley of French Airs" 



MacDowell 

arr. by Nelson 

Victor Herbert 

Medley of Folk Songs" py ff. ^^j^^^ 

Rosey 



arr. by Nelson 
Massenet 

German 



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